DravyaOSComparison
DravyaOS against what you're running now
Pharmacy software is a crowded space, and most of it is more alike than the brochures suggest. Here is an honest, row-by-row look at how DravyaOS lines up against the packages we're most often asked to replace — 57 rows, and a section on when you should stay exactly where you are.
Checked against DravyaOS v5.0.4 · 26 September 2026
The bottom line
a year, for the whole shop.
Nearly everything in the table below charges by the year — a licence, an AMC, or a per-seat subscription — and counts your counters, your devices and your users. DravyaOS is one price per shop: every feature, every device, every staff login, on Windows and Android. See the full pricing.
Every row that matters
All 57, side by side
Grouped by what you'd actually be weighing. Nothing here is a feature checkbox — every row is something that changes a working day at a counter.
| What matters at the counter | DravyaOSOffline-first · synced | Typical pharmacy softwareWhat the packages we're asked to replace do |
|---|---|---|
| Money & termsWhat it costs to run, and what happens when you want to stop. | ||
| Cost to run the shopThe bill you pay every year just to keep billing. | One yearly price per shop, every feature in | A licence with an annual AMC, or a subscription per year |
| Cost to add a second counterMost pharmacy software charges per seat or per branch. | Nothing — no per-seat fee | Charged per seat, per system or per branch |
| Trying it before you commitWhether you have to talk to a salesperson to see the software. | Try mode, no account needed | A demo call, a dealer visit, or a 7-day trial |
| Getting startedHow long from deciding to billing your first customer. | Download & run in minutes | Vendor-led onboarding, sometimes a setup fee |
| Offline working & your dataWhat happens when the internet goes, and who holds the master copy. | ||
| Works with no internetA counter that stops when the line drops is a counter that stops. | Always — local-first | Cloud-tied on the newer ones, desktop-bound on the older |
| Where the master copy livesWhether you can still open your books if you stop paying. | On your machine | The vendor's cloud, or a file only that one machine reads |
| Automatic cross-device syncThe counter PC and your phone showing the same stock. | Built in, offline-first | A cloud edition, an add-on, or a server on your own LAN |
| Two computers billing at onceTwo offline tills can otherwise print the same invoice number twice. | Own number series each | Rarely addressed — two counters share one number pool |
| Backup & restoreGetting your shop back after a dead hard disk. | Local + synced copy | Manual, vendor-managed, or whatever the plan includes |
| At the counterThe twenty seconds that repeat three hundred times a day. | ||
| Built for a pharmacyWhether batches, schedules and salts are native or bolted on. | Purpose-built | Purpose-built on the pharmacy ones; a module or an adapted accounts package on the rest |
| Built-in medicine databaseWhether you type your first 8,000 medicines in yourself. | Bundled catalog | Large on the pharmacy ones; an add-on or absent on the general ones |
| Keyboard-only billingReaching for a mouse mid-queue is the whole cost. | End to end | Function keys on the older desktop builds, mouse-led on the newer web ones |
| Several bills open at onceThe next customer arrives while the last bill is still half-typed. | Up to six as tabs, Ctrl+Tab between them; PgUp / PgDn steps to the previous or next bill | A held bill or a saved draft on most; true side-by-side bills on a few |
| Salt / substitute finderThe brand is out of stock and the customer is standing there. | One keystroke | On the pharmacy ones; not on the general ones |
| Split one bill across two payment modesPart cash, part UPI — and the day-close still reconciles. | Cash + UPI on one bill | Rarely on a single bill |
| Discount on the whole billTaken off before GST, so margins and returns still agree. | % or flat, pre-GST | Usually per line rather than across the bill |
| Free goods carried through to the customerThe 10+1 you were given, passed on without arithmetic. | Pre-filled from the purchase | Scheme handling on some; carried through to the customer on few |
| Settle a credit note while billingSo you ask for the right cash the first time. | Applied on the sale itself | A separate voucher, settled after the sale |
| Catches a mis-keyed priceBelow cost, above MRP, or discounted past its own value. | Flagged as you type, and a Potential errors report sweeps GST slabs, missing HSN and sales below cost | Rate alerts on some, a configurable rule on a few, nothing on many |
| Pack photos at the counterRight strip, right box, when the name is nearly identical. | Bundled catalog, automatic | Your own uploads, or on the printed invoice only |
| Phone camera reads the stripHalf the strips on an Indian shelf carry no barcode, but every one prints its brand, batch and expiry. | Brand, batch and expiry read off the print, on the phone, with no signal | On one or two cloud apps; barcode or supplier-bill scanning on the rest |
| Barcode stickers per lotThe same medicine on one shelf is routinely two MRPs; a product-level barcode leaves the biller picking. | Batch, expiry and MRP on the sticker; TSC, TVS, Godex, Zebra in their own language | Product-level barcodes, printed through a Windows driver |
| Loyalty pointsRegulars earn on every bill and spend on the next, without a card scheme bolted on. | Earn and redeem on the bill itself, tiers, and a report that states the liability | A module or a higher plan on some; absent on most |
| Two price lists at a distributorA wholesaler bills a retailer at PTR and a trade buyer at the sale rate — from memory, on every line, unless the software knows. | PTS and PTR set once at goods-inward, or priced from each category's margins; each account tagged B2B or B2C | Rate lists on the ERP-class ones; re-keyed per line on the rest |
| Stock, expiry & distributor claimsWhere a pharmacy quietly loses money it could have claimed back. | ||
| Batch & expiry trackingTable stakes — every serious tool does this. | Built in | Yes — table stakes, every serious tool does this |
| Each distributor's return windowEvery distributor stops taking stock back at a different point. | Months-before-expiry, per distributor | Not that we can find on any of them |
| Claim-by date on every batchExpiring stock is only money if the claim goes out in time. | With days left, closing-soon first | Not that we can find on any of them |
| Returns carry a reasonExpiry vs breakage vs short supply — so claims can be counted. | Five reasons, reportable | Rarely captured, and rarely reportable |
| Spend a distributor's debit note on a receiptPay the distributor only what's left after their credit. | On the goods receipt itself | A separate accounting entry, not on the receipt |
| The same supplier bill, never twiceA bill keyed in twice doubles the stock and the amount you owe. | Asks before saving a repeated supplier invoice number; AI import skips it | An alert on a couple of accounting apps; nothing at entry on most |
| Short-book reorderWhat to order, grouped by who you order it from. | Grouped by distributor, sized to how fast each medicine really sells | On the pharmacy ones, usually as a plain shortage list |
| Merge duplicate medicinesTwo rows for one product — the catalogue's and a hand-typed one — split its stock and its history. | One click: stock, bills and history move across | Varies; often a support job |
| Compliance & paperworkThe things an inspector or a CA asks for. | ||
| GST-ready invoicingTable stakes. | Yes | Yes — everybody does this |
| Non-GST estimatesThe trade still raises them, and they must stay out of the returns. | Own E-series, left out of GSTR-1, 3B and the e-invoice; stock and dues still move | An estimate or non-GST bill on many, though whether it stays out of the returns is rarely stated |
| GSTR-1 & GSTR-3BThe returns themselves, not just the tax on the bill. | Built in | Yes, and a real strength on the accounting-first ones |
| E-invoice (IRN) registrationRule 48(4) shops must register every B2B bill; most software routes that through a paid GSP. | Upload file built offline, the portal's result read back, IRN and QR on every copy — no GSP, no per-document fee | Through a GSP integration, often metered or on a higher plan |
| Trial balance & balance sheetWhether the accountant gets books, or a pile of bills to build them from. | Derived from your own documents, with a books-lock date | Full accounting on the ERP-class ones; a Tally export on the billing-first ones |
| Schedule H1 / X registerA legal requirement, and the thing most tools bolt on. | With prescriber address on the bill; NDPS, Schedule G, C and Anti-TB tagged too | Yes on the pharmacy ones; an add-on or absent elsewhere |
| Catches a mis-tagged schedule drugA register is only as good as the tagging behind it. | Reads composition, you approve | Not that we can find on any of them |
| Print, share or save any documentInvoice, receipt, both notes, both statements — one bar. | A4/A5 · print, share, PDF | Print-first, with sharing bolted on later |
| Dot matrix on pre-printed formsA long bill has to break where the stationery does, not run off the form. | Items per form, the header again on each, totals on the last | Strong on the desktop ERPs; absent on the web and phone apps |
| Documents dated to your shop's dayA bill raised at 12:30am shouldn't land in last month's return. | Your day, not UTC's | Varies, and rarely stated anywhere |
| Delete & restoreWhether one wrong click can take history with it. | Refused, or undoable | Permanent delete, a recycle bin, or restore from a backup |
| What each staff member may do and seeA new hand at the counter doesn't need to delete bills or see your margin. | Switches per person — delete, void, see cost — and which screens they get | Per-user rights on most; fixed roles on a few |
| Knowing what to do nextReports you run yourself vs a tool that tells you. | ||
| ReportsHow much you can ask without exporting to Excel. | 58, indexed & searchable | Extensive on most — finding the right one is on you |
| Tells you what to act on todayNobody runs twelve reports on a Tuesday morning. | Six findings, ranked by money | Reports you run yourself |
| Ask the app about the screen“Why is this number like this” and “where do I do this” are the two questions a manual can't answer. | Ctrl+J: answered from your own data, and it changes a record only when you press the button | A support ticket, or a help-centre search |
| Profit on each billWorst first, with credit notes netted onto the bill. | Built in | Sometimes, and often only inside a report |
| Doctors & referral commissionSet a rate on a prescriber, see what each is owed. | Screen + two reports | Rarely, and rarely reportable |
| Supplier & customer statementsA running balance you can hand over or send. | Both, bill by bill | Yes, and a strength on the accounting-first ones |
| Reach & switchingWhere it runs, whose language it speaks, and how you get in. | ||
| Runs onWhether the phone is the whole app or a viewer. | Windows + Android — full app | Windows, or a web app with a mobile view |
| Works in your languageThe staff member billing may not read English. | 7 Indian languages + English | English, sometimes Hindi; a few go wider |
| Send on WhatsApp or SMSHow a customer actually receives their bill. | Bills, receipts, notes, statements — and a dues reminder listing the open bills | On recent versions, often the invoice only |
| Alerts on your phone with the app closedLow stock, an order coming in, a payment falling due — while you are not at the counter. | Android notifications, per person, off the moment they sign out | Email or SMS on some; a phone app on a few |
| Online store & ordersTaking an order without answering the phone. | Built in — retail or trade | A tie-in, an ordering network, or a separate product |
| Import from your old softwareThe single biggest reason shops don't switch. | CSV, PDF & photos — AI-read, a long bill across five photos, a bill already entered skipped | Retype it, or pay for a data job |
| InterfaceHow long a new hire takes to become useful. | Rebuilt for today | Evolved from 2000s desktop builds, or a modern web front |
where we think DravyaOS is ahead not offered, or not something we could confirm an unmarked row is a genuine wash — both sides do it
The honest part
When we'd tell you to stay where you are
No comparison written by one side is neutral. So here is what the software you already have does better than we do — and if one of these is the thing you need, the table above is the wrong reason to move.
We do bill trade buyers: PTS and PTR set at goods-inward, B2B and B2C accounts, and receipts priced from category margins — enough for a counter that also supplies a few retailers. Multi-tier stock, D1–D2 and the full depth a large distributor runs on are the home ground of the long-established Indian pharma ERPs, and not what we set out to match.
Proper ledgers, cost centres and audit-ready books are a different product from a pharmacy app. We give you the reports a pharmacy needs; an accounting package gives you an accounting system, and if your CA works inside it, stay.
Multi-store retail ERP maturity across formats, and ward-wise supply with prescription-linked dispensing, are things a retail-counter tool has no reason to have built. We do multi-shop; we don't do either of those.
If e-pharmacy reach and a consumer ordering app are the point rather than a convenience, a cloud pharmacy platform built around that will go further than our online store, which is a side of the app rather than the whole of it.
A general billing app covers a mixed shop in one place and is genuinely simple about it. Every batch, salt and schedule feature we have is dead weight if most of your counter isn't pharmacy.
A licence with an annual AMC often buys a person who turns up. We answer on WhatsApp and ship updates; nobody drives to your shop. If an on-site visit is the service you actually value, that is a fair reason to stay.
Not a mockup
The rows above, in the actual app
The bill, without the mouse
Medicine, batch, quantity, payment, print. Every step has a key, the batch list is already sorted by what expires first, and the line turns red before you save if the rate is below cost or above MRP. The queue doesn't wait for you to find a dropdown.
- Search by brand or by salt — the substitute finder is one keystroke
- Free goods pre-fill from the 10 + 1 the batch was bought on
- Split one bill across cash and UPI and the day-close still matches
New sale — the whole bill without touching a mouse
58 reports, and a way to find the one you want
Sales and profit cut by medicine, customer, company, HSN, staff, doctor and beat. GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B. Day book, collections by tender, profit per bill worst-first, stock movement, and a Schedule H1 & X prescription register. Search matches how you'd say it — “party wise”, “distributor”, “stock statement”.
- Open any report by name from the command palette, anywhere
- Every report exports to CSV and prints on A4 or A5
- Stock valued at cost, MRP or selling price — named on the page
Reports — 58 of them, searchable by the words you'd use
It tells you what to do, not just what happened
Nobody runs twelve reports on a Tuesday morning. The app reads your own ledger and surfaces six findings, ranked by the money attached: stock running short at the rate it's really selling, stock that hasn't moved, batches expiring faster than you'll sell them, purchase rates that crept up, regulars overdue for a refill, and scheduled drugs billed with no prescriber.
- Every finding opens the screen where you'd act on it
- Works entirely offline — it's your data, read locally
- The figures behind each finding are shown, not hidden
The dashboard leads with what's worth acting on
What you're weighing
Most shops are on one of three kinds of thing
The table above holds for all three, but what it costs you differs. Find the one that sounds like your counter.
A desktop pharmacy ERP
Long-established Indian pharmacy software, sold through a dealer and installed on the counter PC. Deep on distribution, and the interface has been carried forward since the 2000s.
- Licensed per system, so the second counter is a second bill
- Runs offline — but cross-device sync is an add-on or a cloud tier
- The master copy is a file on one machine, backed up by hand
A cloud pharmacy app
Pharmacy-native and quick to start, with nothing to install. The trade is that the counter needs a live connection to keep billing, and the master copy sits on someone else's server.
- Billing stops when the line drops, which is when a queue forms
- Your data is on their infrastructure, on their terms
- Priced per store or per user, so growth costs more each month
A general billing or accounting package
Excellent at the ledger, and plenty of medical stores bill on one. None of them was built for batches, salts, expiry claims or a Schedule H1 register.
- No bundled medicine catalogue — you type the shelf in yourself
- No salt substitute at the counter when a brand is out
- Schedule H1 and the prescriber register are yours to keep on paper
Moving across
Getting off your old software without losing your stock
The single biggest reason shops don't switch. It's four steps, and your old software stays exactly where it is.
01
Get your data out
Whatever your current software exports — stock, customers, suppliers, outstanding balances. A CSV is ideal, but a PDF or even a phone photo of a printed list works.
02
Let the import read it
AI import takes CSV, PDF and photos, and handles a catalogue of about 35,000 rows in one go. It maps the columns itself — you review what it found before anything is saved.
03
Check the openings
Opening stock, and what each customer and distributor owes you, bill by bill. Opening bills stay editable afterwards, so a wrong figure on day one isn't permanent.
04
Bill on day one
Your old software stays installed and untouched for as long as you want it as a reference. Nothing is deleted, and nothing about DravyaOS expires.
Questions
Choosing pharmacy software, answered
Which pharmacy software is best for a single medical store in India?
It depends on what you are optimising for, which is why the table above is a table and not a verdict. If you want depth of distribution features and a dealer who visits, a long-established desktop pharmacy ERP has decades of that behind it. If you want to be billing this afternoon with nothing to configure, that is what DravyaOS is for. For a single counter we would say download it, import your stock, and see how a week at the counter actually goes before you commit to anything.
How is DravyaOS priced compared with the rest of the table?
Most of the products here charge by the year — a licence, an AMC, or a per-seat subscription — and much of what is marketed as costing nothing is a time-limited trial, a feature-limited edition, or a tier with the pharmacy-specific parts on a paid plan above it. DravyaOS is one price per shop: ₹2,999 a year for everything, on every counter, device and staff login. The cost row in the table above says exactly what each of the eleven charges.
How do you decide what goes in a row, and can I trust it?
Every row is something that changes a working day at a pharmacy counter, and the DravyaOS side of each row is written once and shared by all eleven comparisons so our own claims cannot drift between pages. Rival cells come from publicly available information. Where we could not confirm something we say so rather than asserting the feature is missing, and rows we have not checked against a particular product are marked as unchecked, not as absent.
How often is this comparison updated?
It is re-checked against each DravyaOS release and stamped with the version and date it was last verified, shown under the heading at the top of this page. Competitor products change too — if you spot a cell that is out of date or wrong, email us and we will correct it.
What does DravyaOS cost?
₹2,999 a year for one shop — every feature, unlimited counters, devices, medicines, invoices and staff logins. Two shops start at ₹7,599 a year. Try the whole system free for 3 days first, no card and no account needed to install. If you stop paying, the app goes read-only rather than dark — every bill, batch and report stays open to read, search, correct, export and print; you just can't write new ones until you subscribe again. No AMC and no per-seat charge for a second counter.
What happens to my billing if the internet goes down?
Nothing. DravyaOS keeps the master copy of your data on your own machine and works entirely offline — billing, stock, returns, reports, printing. Sync is how your devices catch up with each other when a connection is there; it is never something the counter waits for.
If the data is on my machine, what happens if the machine dies?
Your data is on your machine and, if you've signed in, mirrored to your other devices. Restoring is a matter of installing DravyaOS on the new machine and signing in. You can also take a local backup at any time.
Can I keep my old software running while I try this?
Yes, and we'd suggest it. DravyaOS doesn't touch your existing installation. Import a copy of your data, run both for a week, and only stop the old one when you're satisfied.
How do I get support?
Email help@dravyaos.com — a question, a bug or a request all go to the same place.
How we compare
What a row means, and what it doesn't
Rows earn their place
Every row is something that changes a working day at a counter — the twenty seconds that repeat three hundred times, or the money that quietly leaks out of an expiry claim. Feature checklists nobody uses are left out on purpose.
Both sides are written once
Our cell and the typical cell in every row live in a single file, so neither can drift from section to section or fall behind a release. Both are re-checked against each version we ship.
We name nobody, and we counted anyway
The right-hand column isn't a hunch about a nameless rival: it's what 11 real products, checked one by one against 32 of these rows, actually add up to. We publish the pattern rather than a scorecard on somebody's brand, because a shop is choosing a kind of tool before it chooses a name.
We publish where we lose
The cases where we'd tell you to stay put are up this page, not buried. A comparison that finds nothing good to say about the alternatives isn't a comparison.
Compiled from publicly available information and last checked on 26 September 2026, against DravyaOS v5.0.4. The right-hand column describes the general pattern across the products we reviewed and will not fit every one of them, or every edition of any one of them. It names no product, makes no claim about any particular company, and is not a substitute for evaluating whatever you are actually considering. Features and pricing change — if you spot anything out of date or wrong, tell us and we'll correct it.
See it for yourself
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